- Samsung has officially announced the latest Exynos 2600 SoC fabbed on a 2nm process.
- It is the latest chipset to host ARM's v9.3 architecture with new C1 Ultra and C1 Pro cores, and no low-power cores.
- It promises a leap in performance both in CPU and GPU space as well as AI.
Samsung has officially entered a new era of performance with Exynos 2600, the world’s first-ever chipset fabbed on a 2nm GAA process. It promises a leap in CPU and GPU performance, thermal behavior, AI performance, and efficiency, to name a few, and the Samsung Galaxy S26 series will be the first to pick it up next month.
Samsung launches Exynos 2600 SoC — world’s first 2nm chipset
Samsung has finally launched the world’s first-ever 2nm SoC dubbed Exynos 2600 – a successor to last year’s Exynos 2500 SoC. It is no ordinary chipset as it has come to rival against the likes of Apple and Qualcomm (yes, MediaTek too) in areas its Exynos chipsets have been struggling to achieve over the years.
The specs and stats say it all
Exynos 2600 SoC features a 10-core GPU based on the latest v9.3 architecture by ARM. It uses a combination of two cores — C1 Ultra and C1 Pro, but there’s no low-power core here. When it comes to the architecture, we see a prime C1-Ultra core at 3.8GHz, three high-performance C1-Pro cores clocked at 3.25GHz, plus six efficiency C1-Pro cores at 2.75GHz. Fabbed on a 2nm Gate-All-Around (GAA) process, the chipset manages to boost performance by up to 39% compared to the Exynos 2500 SoC. Moreover, the SME2 instructions on-board the chipset enhance its on-device machine learning workloads and latency.
Moving on, we have the Xclipse 960 GPU on-board that succeeds Xclipse 950 from the Exynos 2500 SoC. The GPU promises twice the compute performance and 50% better ray tracing capabilities. All this, plus the new Neural Super Sampling technology, delivers smoother gameplay without causing much power hit to the GPU using AI-based upscaling and frame generation.
AI is a big thing for Samsung, and with a plethora of use cases, you need a beefy chipset to support the same. Samsung’s Exynos 2600 SoC now supports an upgraded NPU that delivers 113% better AI performance. This is all the chipset requires running more advanced and complex generative AI models, which happens to bring more AI features to Samsung phones. Samsung is also taking care of security on board with the first-ever virtualization security and hardware-backed PCQ, all of which ensures superior on-device privacy and security from threats.
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Lastly, the world’s first-ever 2nm SoC chipset brings camera support of up to 320MP thanks to an upgraded and integrated ISP. There’s also zero shutter lag for 108MP shots on-board. On the video front, we have up to 8K recording at 30fps, 4K at 120fps, and HDR. Samsung plans to roll out the Exynos 2600 SoC across Galaxy S26 and S26+ once the phones are rolled out in early 2026.
